Andreas Bergh is associate professor in Economics at Lund university and fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm.

His research concerns the welfare state, institutions, development, globalization, trust and social norms.

He has published in journals such as European Economic Review, World Development, European Sociological Review and Public Choice. He is the author of 'Sweden and the revival of the capitalist welfare state" (Edward Elgar, 2014).

According to the estimated coefficients in panel B, a two-standard deviation increase in the (log) number of steps to open a new business is associated with a 0.71 worsening of the corruption index and a 14 percentage point rise in employment in the unofficial economy.